i pretend im 6 and i claim to believe they are my grandma! and if she asks where my parents are, i tell them they in the bedroom playing the drums now you dont even have to have done this, just come up with great ways to do it EDIT: I missed it a while ago.... BUT 2000 REPLIES!!!!!! WOOO!! _______________________________________________________________ [b][EDIT][/b] [i] This post can be found on the 89th page.[/i] WOOOO!!!! I finally actually got a telemarketer to call me in ages! Here's the story: A guy with a very strong east indian accent called and my senses kicked in immediately. He offered to do a free estimate for new gutters on my house, (my gutters are brand spanking new so I wasn't losing anything) so I told him that I needed to make sure that the gutters would stay sturdy if at least 150 pounds were hung off of them because the neighbors kids use my gutters to hang off of to sneak out of their house and they are always breaking. After some explaining and interrupting his sales pitch, he finally spoke to a manager and told me that it would hold the weight. ( I doubt it ) The guy spent twenty minutes and started getting aggravated with me trying to tell me that an expert would be at my house tomorrow to give me an estimate, but I kept telling him that I would like to come in and take a look at the gutters to see them hold the weight because I was busy with the court system going through a divorce (he thought I was my dad so.....) so I wouldn't be home much and it would be a waste of my time had the estimator come and told me "-blam!- no, it can't hold that." (and also see that my house isn't actually broken) So the guy spent a good two minutes trying to convince me to let the guy come give me an estimate, all the while I kept telling him: "Look, there is no point in giving me an estimate if I don't see that it can hold 150 pounds! The rest of the gutters are brand new! it's just the once part that keeps breaking! I don't care how much it costs, I would just like to come in and see if it can hold the weight I need it to hold. There is no point for me to get your gutters if they are going to break again next week! I need to see them successfully hold 150 pounds first before anything else!" that lasted for about 10 minutes. When he finally got the idea that I wanted to come see their gutters demonstrated, I was telling them that they were wasting my time with this and that I'll stick to what I can see in the stores. I could very much hear the agony in his hard to understand accent when he told me, "ok sir, thank you and sorry for your time." [Edited on 07.20.2011 3:47 PM PDT]